Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Government of Lesotho have signed a Letter of Intent on the resumption of direct funding to the Government of Lesotho, following the successful implementation of pre-disbursement financial systems requirements…

In a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa, three countries – Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone – today launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West…

An estimated 51.2 million lives have been saved through vaccines in the African region over the past 50 years. For every infant life saved over that period, close to 60 years of life are lived, a new report by World Health Organization (WHO)…

AIDS was recognised as a new disease in 1981. The cause of AIDS was identified as a virus that had almost certainly jumped from chimpanzees into humans at least several decades earlier somewhere in Central Africa. The virus—now known as Human…

Recent years have brought a yellow fever resurgence to Cameroon. Last month, a targeted vaccination campaign pummeled the chain of transmission in seven especially vulnerable health districts. Nalova Akua reports.

The climate crisis is damaging our mental and physical health, with a World Economic Forum report estimating it will lead to 14.5 million deaths by 2050.